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Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they’ve concluded they ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If you build it, they will come. But they might not come back! This is what Brazilian engineers learned recently in their effort to save fish stocks.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. NOAA has developed a system to track carb...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill? That’s right, a flying windmill.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation and scientists are hoping to capitalize on the beetle’s adaptation...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated…
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. But is there a way to capture the carbon ...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening to them these days?
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1